Get to the Point!

Question 1

Rick, try to be a bit more /concise/ in this paper; the assignment was for a three-page paper; yours was 106

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brief and to the point

Question 2

I’ve known Lucy for ten years, but she’s so /laconic/ that I hardly know anything about her past

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disposed to using few words

Question 3

Because commercial time during the Super Bowl runs over 3 million per minute, it’s good to be succinct

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spoken or written in a clear and precise manner

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My girlfriend tends to be brusque when she’s mad, she just tells me to “talk to the hand”

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rudely abrupt

Question 5

The dictionary was 1,400 pages long before it was abridged by the publishers to 850 pages.

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to shorten a written text

Question 6

Speeches at the Academy Awards are not known for their brevity; they often go on long past their allotted time.

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quality of succinct expression

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they conspired against him

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to plan together secretly to commit an illegal/harmful/unlawful act

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the authors concurred with the majority

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to agree

Question 9

living in concord and peace with people of different races and religions

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a state of harmony; agreement or harmony between people or groups

Question 10

CONGENITAL and HEREDITARY refer to what is acquired before or at birth, the former to things acquired during fetal development and the latter to things transmitted from one’s ancestors. a congenital heart murmur eye color is hereditary

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pass

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a congenital malformation of the heart

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existing at birth

Question 12

the widening schism between Church leaders and politicians

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division (into political or religious factions)

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she was an incisive critic

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sharp, decisive and direct

having keen/clear insight

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co, con-

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together with

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cis

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cut

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brev

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brief

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cur

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run, course

Question 18

a concise account of the country’s history

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S: Succinct, terse
A: Verbose, discursive

Question 19

“his laconic reply suggested a lack of interest in the topic”

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S: taciturn, reticent
A: garrulous, loquacious

Question 20

“use short, succinct sentences”

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S: Terse, concise
A: Prolix, protracted

Question 21

“she could be brusque and impatient”

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S: Curt, abrupt
A: Polite

Question 22

“the introduction is abridged from the author’s afterword to the novel”

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S: Abbreviate, cut down
A: Augment, Amplify

Question 23

“the brevity of human life”

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S: Conciseness, pithiness (transience)
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Question 24

“everything conspires to exacerbate the situation”

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S: plot, collaborate (scheme)
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Question 25

(1) "there are many who would concur with this view" (2)"in tests, cytogenetic determination has been found to concur with enzymatic determination" S/A

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S: (1) agree (2) coincide, happen simultaneously A:

Question 26

"disputatious council meetings which occasionally ended in concord" S/A

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S: agreement, consensus, (unanimity) A: disagreement, discord

Question 27

"a congenital liar" | S/A

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S: inborn, inherited A: acquired

Question 28

More striking still is the widening ideological and personal schism within the very group of citizens who should be a conservative president’s most natural supporters. S/A

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S: division, rift A: harmony

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an incisive analysis | S/A

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